Women in Tech Brunch: Leading Disruptive Innovation

Sandy Carter is Vice President of Windows and Enterprise Workloads at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focused on helping companies to innovate using technology. She is the author of Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit, built on her research with Carnegie Mellon.  Sandy was named Lifetime Achievement Winner, ‘Excellence in Cloud Achievement’ for 2019, Top 10 AI Influencers for 2019, Top 39 Engineers by Business Insider 2018, Top 50 AI influencer by Onalytica 2018, Top 10 Future of Work influencer in 2018, and Top 10 Women in Technology by CNN.  Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley.

Keela Robison is Vice President of Product Innovation at Netflix, where her product management team oversees global member experiences across apps, web, and TV. Prior to Netflix, she was VP of engineering and product at Expedia in charge of the lodging business (hotels and vacation rentals) for Expedia.com. Keela was previously CEO of Urbanspoon, a top-500 consumer mobile app for restaurant reviews, which she sold in 2015. She has held executive and product leadership positions at Amazon, T-Mobile, and RealNetworks. Keela lives in Los Gatos California with her husband and two sons, and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University.